Income metadata from surveys conducted by the
Philippines' National Statistics Office.
Usage
data(Ilocos)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 632 observations of 8 variables.
income
total income of household,
sex
sex of household head ("male" or "female"),
family.size
family size (sometimes averaged over two semesters),
urbanity
factor with levels "rural" and "urban",
province
factor indicating the particular province,
AP.income
total household income during the APIS,
AP.family.size
family size during APIS,
AP.weight
APIS survey weight for each household.
Source
National Statistics Office, Philippines:
http://www.census.gov.ph/, where also the whole data set may be
obtained.
Details
The data contains household income and metadata in one
of the sixteen regions of the Philippines called Ilocos.
The data comes from two of the NSO's surveys:
the 1997 Family and Income and Expenditure Survey
and the 1998 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS).
Since the APIS only has a six month reference
period, the original data were rescaled using an adjustment factor
from the quarterly GDP figures that can be obtained from the
major sectors.